11.   Technical difficulties limited the transmission of traditional Arabic music and occasional news announcements to the central area of the West Bank.

12.   There are dozens of other shops to browse through as Arabic music spills out of doorways and furniture is displayed on the street on weekends.

13.   Though this music is rarely performed in New York, it used the familiar maqam scale of Arabic music.

14.   We found that within Arabic music, Moroccan music, there were some extremely seductive lines - especially when they started to bring in strings and orchestras.

15.   PLO officials remained in the building, ignoring the disruption below, but turned up a radio playing Arabic music.

16.   But before the instructor turned on the Arabic disco music, the two housewives knelt in a corner to say afternoon prayers.

17.   First came the BBC World Service, then Arabic music.

18.   In a festive mood with flags fluttering and Arabic music blaring, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday cast ballots in their first general election.

19.   In Egypt, Cairenes fleeing their dusty city swayed and danced to Arabic music aboard crowded boats sailing along the Nile River to popular picnic sites.

20.   Munir Bashir, an Iraqi musician who used the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument, to promote Arabic music around the world, has died.